§ Mr. BlunkettTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the accident rates, both fatal and non-fatal in the building and construction industry and in the rest of the manufacturing and construction industry as a whole, for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Nicholls[holding answer 2 December 1987]: The table gives the available information for the construction and manufacturing industries from 1981 to 1986–87:
Year Number of: prosecutions1: informations laid Convictions obtained Average fine per conviction Manufacturing Construction Manufacturing Construction Manufacturing Construction 1981 824 605 730 531 201 218 1982 1,084 856 966 734 265 219 1983 1,023 727 883 651 258 262 1984 1,055 669 938 590 303 345 1985 930 717 847 577 47S 433 1986 January to March 225 158 196 128 501 436 1986–872 813 652 727 482 484 517 1 Data are for prosecutions taken by Factory and Agricultural Inspectorate, and exclude any taken by Local Authorities, the Explosives Inspectorate, Her Majesty's Mines and Quarries Inspectorate, Railway Inspectorate and the Petroleum Engineering Division of the Department of Energy and the Pollution Inspectorate (formerly the Industrial Air Pollution Inspectorate). 2 Provisional data for the 12 month period April 1986 to March 1987.